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3 May 1857. Browning, Robert to Martin, Julia.

3 May 1857. Browning, Robert to Martin, Julia.

Florence.
May 3. ’57.
My dear Mrs Martin,
Truest thanks for your letter. We had the intelligence from George last Thursday week, having been only prepared for the illness by a note received from Arabel the day before. Ba was sadly affected at first,—miserable to see & hear. After a few days, tears came to her relief. She is now very weak and prostrated, but improving in strength of body & mind: I have no fears for the result. I suppose you know at least the very little that we know—& how unaware poor Mr Barrett was of his imminent death: “he bade them,” says Arabel “make him comfortable for the night, but a moment before the last.” And he had dismissed her, and her Aunt, about an hour before, with a cheerful or careless word about “wishing them good-night.” So it is all over now, all hope of better things, or a kind answer to entreaties such as I have seen Ba

Florence.
May 3. ’57.
My dear Mrs Martin,
Truest thanks for your letter. We had the intelligence from George last Thursday week, having been only prepared for the illness by a note received from Arabel the day before. Ba was sadly affected at first,—miserable to see & hear. After a few days, tears came to her relief. She is now very weak and prostrated, but improving in strength of body & mind: I have no fears for the result. I suppose you know at least the very little that we know—& how unaware poor Mr Barrett was of his imminent death: “he bade them,” says Arabel “make him comfortable for the night, but a moment before the last.” And he had dismissed her, and her Aunt, about an hour before, with a cheerful or careless word about “wishing them good-night.” So it is all over now, all hope of better things, or a kind answer to entreaties such as I have seen Ba